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#gif  #steven universe  #steven universe spoilers  #pink diamond #rose quartz #the more we learn about rose the more everything she did makes sense #and the worse i feel for her  #all she really wanted was a family #but she wan’t emotionally mature enough to handle things #and what started as little problems quickly grew out of control #it’s ironic that her son who hasn’t even existed for two decades is more equipped to handle a lot of the things she couldn’t overcome #and sad that she thought she would never be able to grow enough to overcome them #even though she’d already grown and changed so much #the problem wasn’t her status so much as the fact that she kept running away from her problems #but even then her running away from her problems was because of the attitudes she was raised to have #rather than plain old selfishness or manipulativeness #she was a product of her environment as much as any gem or human #but she lacked the perspective to break out of her old patterns #and felt like someone else could do better in her stead and decided everyone would be better off if she didn’t exist #she’s never going to get to see those problems get resolved as herself and finally live her life as herself #and that’s one of the greatest tragedies of the show #the other greatest tragedy is just how many other people got wrapped up in her failure to solve her problems #and how much damage they suffered because of it #which wouldn’t have happened if being raised by the other diamonds hadn’t damaged pink in that particular way #it’s like a whole self perpetuating cycle of damaged people damaging other damaged people #and now this little kid is tasked with breaking that cycle #on the one hand it’s horribly unfair to expect so much of a child #but on the other hand it’s incredible to see how much one little action can go towards healing centuries of hurt #how a little human kindness and empathy can start pushing people towards real lasting change for the better #this show’s themes are really neat is what i’m saying

@golvio has the only valid analysis of Pink/Rose everyone else go home